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Harding elected the 29th President of the U.S.
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Used as a temporary buffer for lawmakers to create the National Origins Act in 1924.
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Coolidge elected the 30th president of the U.S.
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The act limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the United States through a national origins quota, completely excluding Asian immigrants, was enacted on this date.
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This act cut federal tax rates (retroactively for 1923) and established the U.S. Board of Tax Appeals, which was later renamed the United States Tax Court.
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This plan was proposed by the Dawes Committee to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany was forced to pay.
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The state of Tennessee took John T. Scopes, a substitute teacher, to trial for violating the Butler Act when he taught evolution to his students.
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First man to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
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International agreement to not use war to resolve conflicts, sponsored by France and the U.S.
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Hoover is elected as the 31st President of the U.S.
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This four day stock market crash contributed to the Great Depression. The market dropped about twenty five percent.
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The end of prohibition allowed alcohol to be manufactured and distributed in the Unites States.
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Germany violates the Treaty of Versailles.
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Japan bombs a U.S ship and the U.S demands only apology and reparation.
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Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
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Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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This was a air battle between Germany and Britain, about 1000 British aircraft were shot down while Germany had over 1800.
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Japanese surprise attack on the U.S.